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(96) Jan.ry y.e 16.th 1676/7 Wee whose names are hereunder Written being A Jury of Inquiry by vertue of A writt from the Hon.ble Chancellour Dated the Thirteenth of May One Thousand Six hundred Seaventy Six and p.rsented by Cap.t Jonathan Sibrie and M.r William Pearce of this County of Cæcill to ^Us^ for to Enquire what Lands Matthias Cornelius late of this County Decd Died Seized of att the time of his Death and of whatt Manno.r under what Rents & Services and how much those lands & Tenem.ts are of value by the yeare in all Issues and att what time the Said Matthias Cornelius Dyed & who is the next heyre &c According to the Tennor of the Said Writt This Inquisition of which wee here underwritten by one Diligent Inquiry returne That is the said Mathias Cornelius Dyed Seized of Fifty Acres of Land on the North side of Sassafrax Joyning on Marquis Saverton it Being a Plantation that the Said Mathias Cornellius bought in his life time of one Clement Nickholson but wee Cannot Certainly understand if the land was Ever Patented The Value of the lands and Tenements wee Judge butt little itt being A Decayd Ruinate plantation of Fifty Acres of Land that the said Mathias Cornelius Seized att his Death who Died About Eleaven yeares Since without any heyre that wee understand to which wee here Subscribe Abraham Wilde (Sealed) Bartholemew BH Hendrickson (Sealed) Andrew ^ Powleson (Sealed) Roger Lademer (Sealed) Thomas TB Boston (Sealed) Thomas P Shelton (Sealed) John James (Sealed) Andrew A P Peterson (Sealed) his marke his mark John Browning (Sealed) Mounte * Andrees (Sealed) Henry O Penman (Sealed) his mark Andrew Clement (Sealed) his Marke This is the Verdict of the Jury given in to Us the Day & Yeare above Written Test p Us Jonn Sibrey (Sealed) Willm Pearce (Sealed) Which Said Inquisition being Read in Open Court the Twenty Seaventh day of Aprill one thousand Six hundred Seaventy Seaven Itt is y.e Judgement of the Court that the land in the Inquisition named alwayes was and Still is Seized in his Lordpps Right to Dispose Jn.o Blomfeild Cl h Frydaÿ the twelfth daÿ of Aprill Anno Domini 1678 In Chancery Between Thomas Sprigg p.lt and Thomas Trueman def.t att a Court of Chancerÿ then held were present Phillip Calvert Esq.r Chancellor The Honnour.ble W.m Calvert Esq.r Secretarÿ Baker Brooke Esq.r Survey.r Gen.rall Benjamin Rozer Esq.r This cause comeing to be heard upon the Ninth day of October 1677 upon full debate of the matter between the parties on both sides and their attorneys itt was by this Court ordered and decreed that the Def.t Thomas Trueman should paÿ unto the Complaynant all such Charges and damages as the said Complaynant had laid out Expended and Susteyned by nonperformance of the Agreement therein mentioned and in the Removeing his family and stock (To) |
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